Why foo.txt precedes foo.bar.txt with sorting by names?

[MVV]

I've just noticed that and found interesting. It looks nice (especially with aligned extensions) but I can't explain why it is so.

When sorting by names ascending, I see following files order (it is so for all four sort methods):

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foo.txt
foo.0.txt
foo.bar.txt

However '0' should precede 't' and 'b' in both aplhabetical and numeric character code sorting.

Who can explain this?

[ghisler(Author)]

TC separates the name into the actual name part, and the extension. When you sort by name, TC sorts by
foo
foo.0
foo.bar

It only sorts by extension when there are two files with the same name part.

[MVV]

That makes it clear, thank you. When TC sorts by name, it sorts by just name w/o extension...